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Auto Analyst Examines UAW-GM Strike
WKAR Public Media | By Scott Pohl
Published September 16, 2019 at 12:13 PM EDT
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Picketing UAW workers at the General Motors Lansing Grand River assembly plant.
At midnight Sunday night, the United Auto Workers Union struck General Motors over the failure to reach agreement on a new contract. Picket lines quickly went up in front of Lansing's GM facilities.
The strike occurs amid an ongoing corruption scandal involving the current and immediate past presidents of the union.
The UAW is seeking improvements to wages and benefits. They also want the automaker to bring new product to plants that have been running below capacity, in hopes of keeping them open.
WKAR's Scott Pohl asked Paul Eisenstein of TheDetroitBureau.com about those plants, and how he thinks the strike might play out.
PAUL EISENSTEIN: We have one in Michigan that the UAW would like to keep open, and that is the Poletown plant on the border of Hamtramck and the city of Detroit. GM has so far kept that open longer than they planned. They've shut down another plant out in Lordstown, Ohio, and they have indicated that they may be able to put a product, an electric pickup, into that plant to keep it open. So there is the possibility that at least the UAW could succeed in keeping one plant open. GM has also indicated that it might put billions of dollars into the United States to expand production and bring some more product back here. I think, if I remember correctly, the number they were talking about is something like 5,400 jobs.
SCOTT POHL: Do you know of any particular implications for the Lansing plants?
EISENSTEIN: Unfortunately, no. The union has been pretty quiet about specifics, as has General Motors. Clearly there are a number of plants around the U.S. that are running well below capacity, and one of the things that the UAW wants is commitments to those plants for new product that will keep them open. There's quite a few that could close as GM consolidates operations, or they get some sort of agreements going with the UAW, that increases the number of products they have in these in these poorly performing plants.
POHL: We're hearing that GM has quite an inventory of unsold vehicles. That has to be a factor in how long or short a strike might be.
EISENSTEIN: As is often the case, when an automaker risks the possibility of a strike, they try to build up inventory as much as they can before any confrontation can take place. General Motors has done that. They have about 15 or so days more inventory than they normally would, and typically it runs about 61 days. GM is close to 80, if I remember correctly, particularly on the truck side, which of course is where the big sales are taking place these days.
Now, that said, inventories can wind down very quickly, particularly if some of the hot selling models, meaning that people could walk into showrooms and say, 'yeah, you have that pickup, but it's not the type I want' and walk across the street to a Ford or Fiat Chrysler Ram showroom. That's something that they worry about. And complicating matters, the Teamsters have said that they will not ship vehicles that are coming from, say, the factory to a dealership, or even from a train to a dealership, until the strike ends. So in fact, there's a lot of those cars that are supposedly in inventory, which really can't be sold at this point.
POHL: Short strike, long strike, something in between…do you have a gut feeling on day one?
EISENSTEIN: This is a weird situation. We can make a scenario that tells you why it'll only last a day, or a week, or six months. There's a lot of anger out there on the part of union workers, and the UAW leadership knows that if they don't come in with the right contract, they're not going to get it ratified. We've seen that happen before. You may remember earlier in decade, when workers did reject a contract, and right now that's going to be a complicating factor. Workers aware of this scandal, this ongoing scandal, are going to want to have absolute assurance, a lot of comfort, that what the union delivers in the form of the settlement really is the best thing they can get. If they don't get it, this strike could drag on and on and on.
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"Sooner or later [God] withdraws, if not in fact, at least from their conscious experience... He leaves the [human] to stand up on its own legs - to carry out from the will alone duties which have lost all relish.... Our cause is never in more danger than when a human - no longer desiring but still intending to do [God's] will - looks around upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
Quoting from God on Mute, in which Pete Greig quotes from C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters and a senior demon writing to his nephew about the times when people can no longer sense God's presence, and His purposes have stopped making sense.
I turned up at Shallowford House mid-afternoon on Monday with a few thoughts as to what I was going to be faced with over the next 48 hours but nothing solid. It quickly became apparent, however, that the other candidates knew a lot more about what was going on than me and I realised that due to a lack of communication and also a mistake on my part I had managed not to find out certain information! I was gutted, particularly as one of the things that I found out was that the next morning was 'presentations and group discussions' and I had planned nothing! I also felt like a complete idiot. Cue lots of prayer from some dedicated prayer 'warriors' and within two hours the panel secretary had come and spoken to me, assured me that it was not my fault (despite my mistake he felt that the communication I received should have been far better - which wouldn't have allowed for the mistake), and I had managed to prepare a presentation/group discussion and still get down to the bar for a pint before bed!
The presentation/group discussion involved each person in your group (the 15 candidates were placed in two groups, each group had three advisers) giving a five minute talk and then facilitating a 13 minute discussion. People were stopped if they went over time. The order was selected by picking a card and (another answer to prayer) I went first. My talk seemed to go well, the discussion was good, and all three advisers commented (in the interviews with them) that they felt it went well.
On Tuesday afternoon the interviews began. Each candidate was interviewed by each adviser in their group and the interviews lasted 50 minutes. I hope that the word 'honesty' would be an appropriate way to sum up my interviews. I was extremely open about my own beliefs including in my answers to questions regarding the priesthood, lay presidency and baptism. I hope that I also demonstrated a genuine belief that God is leading (and, indeed, has led) me into a position of leadership within the church. If they want a 'dyed-in-the-wool' Anglican then that is not me. But if they want someone who recognises the great potential to harness the great and Godly aspects of tradition with the great and Godly emerging expressions then I think that I may have something to offer.
So, two interviews on Tuesday afternoon and one on Wednesday morning. In and around this was a 'pastoral exercise' which was a 500 word written letter to a hypothetical friend experiencing an 'issue' (which they gave us, in the form of a case study). I enjoyed doing it. There were also a number of times of 'prayer and worship', but - in the most part - I found these to be dry and felt strongly that at a time when I was being asked to show an understanding of the broad styles of 'doing' church within Anglicanism that these times failed to take into account this broadness.
By Wednesday evening I was shattered (combination of adrenaline, train line outside the window, and thin curtains), and so, with a sermon to prepare for Sunday, sought refuge at my parent's home (YKW is still there - she's coming back today) as they were only an hours drive as opposed to five, and I then returned to Glasgow with my Dad (and a sermon!) on Thursday evening. It will be up to two weeks for the Bishop to hear, then he needs to get in touch with me and so, as we are away on holiday for two weeks from next Wednesday, it might be a while until I hear.
As for what I want to hear... Of course I hope to be recommended for training. Yet at the same time I am aware of the fact that I have encountered significant 'issues' throughout the process and am constantly becoming more aware of other 'situations' with which I do not feel comfortable. In a funny kind of way I wouldn't be surprised with either a 'yes' or a 'no' as I think (and hope) that I displayed and articulated a sense of calling and of gifts and abilities that would make me a good clergy person. At the same time I also think that I showed that there are areas where I might not quite 'fit' with certain aspects of the tradition (along with a whole load of others within the Anglican church).
Ultimately, however, I feel that God has led me to know him, placed a call on my life to lead in a church context, brought me to Scotland, given me a home in a great church - where I now have the privilege of serving full time - and that, therefore, it was only right to explore whether the wider church (within this denomination) recognised this 'call'. If they do then the discernment doesn't end there: as I said to a couple of other candidates, "we are having to try and discern about the church as they are trying to discern about us." If they don't, then it will be hard to hear, but I still believe that God is calling me and I will continue to throw myself into my job which, as I said to a couple of people (including one of the selectors) is my "dream job" at this time.
I am nervous and scared and excited, but also (pretty) peaceful. And I know a great big God, who turned my life around, who set my feet on solid ground, and who calls each of us to serve him in different and particular ways. And I believe in the True God: The Father Almighty, and in His Son - Jesus Christ - who, being fully God and fully man, died on the cross for us 'who owe him everything'. And I believe in the Holy Spirit who gives life and strength and vision for whatever lies ahead, today and always.
What a day we had, yesterday. The church was open to visitors from 2pm onwards, right through until the end of the evening service, and at 6.15pm (when we switched counters) we had had 547 people come through the church. There was a cafe (with home-made fair-trade baking), massage, bouncy castle (for kids), computer games, scalextric, quiet place, prayer room, necklace-making and live music throughout the day - and it was all free.
I spoke to a couple of families who were in complete amazement that we were also a 'fully functioning' church but who also thought that what we were doing was really great (especially considering that we are a 'fully functioning' church). It was also a great privilege for us to be able to pray with a number of people, one of whom had come into the church, had a hand massage, left, but then felt prompted to come back and ask for prayer. I am reliably informed that there were a number of people who came in throughout the course of the day and said that they would be back for services next week.
In the evening we had a service which was advertised on all our leaflets which were handed out throughout the day and which we hoped people might invite non-Christian family or friends to. In true St Silas fashion people were still arriving after 6.30pm and so we started a little late as the first half of the service was all performance (poetry and music). It was excellent: a great testimony to the incredibly creative and gifted people that we are blessed with.
Jesus builds a bridge for us to God.
Jesus builds a bridge for us to fullness of life.
God expends the energy in the bridge building process.
We then ended with a time of sung worship, culminating in an a cappella version of Amazing Grace. A fitting way to end an amazing day.
Things are really starting to roll now and today I handed in my research project (I'm thinking it might inspire a book at some point) and completed my final interview with a Muslim person so I can start - and hopefully finish - writing that up tomorrow. I have also made good strides through the second assignment for the Islam course which is entitled, "'Islam is an Arabized reflection of Judaism.' What evidence do you find to either support or refute this assertion?" I am really enjoying this course and have found both the time spent meeting with three Muslims (plus extended family and mosque members) and also the work for the assignment incredibly interesting.
In other areas things are also rolling on. Of particular note is the fact that the panel I attended decided to subject another panel to me, and so I am going to be off to that before too long (quite soon hopefully, watch this space...) There may also be light at the end of the job tunnel and, as with everything of much (OK, not much!) interest, you'll read it here first.
This week I have been trying to keep my head down and get on with work, both for college and church. The problem is that (as I have probably said before) I am not a fan of spending the whole day in the flat on my own, especially when I should be studying. With that in mind I spend a good while studying in a coffee shop yesterday before moving to the library. Today, with a staff meeting at lunch, I'll spend the first few hours of the day in another local cafe.
Yesterday, whilst in the coffee shop, a group of people burst in shouting "Happy fossil fools day!" and then made their way around the whole shop (before they were thrown out) 'flyering' everyone in there and generally encouraging us to use more fossil fuels. I found this report detailing their day out.
It does, of course, raise interesting questions for all who follow Christ; In Genesis 1 God gives the responsibility for looking after the earth and all that is in it to humankind. I wonder if it's time we joined with the Fossil Fools and started to take that a bit more seriously.
Today, for the first time in almost 10 months of marriage, I am leaving my wife in Glasgow and going down to visit some family in England. It isn't the first time we will have been apart - she has been away 3 or 4 times - but it feels a bit odd that it is me doing the leaving.
I came to faith in Christ 5 years ago now, and at the time that I did my God Mother (also my Aunt) was living in the UK in between relocating their family from Pakistan to the US. As a committed Christian her (and my Uncle) played a big role in those early months and I was gutted when they moved. Last summer we were meant to visit them as part of our America trip but unfortunately, due to my mis-spent youth (or 1 night to be more precise), the trip had to be cancelled. But she has come over to visit my Grandparents for a couple of weeks (with my two youngest cousins - making travel to Glasgow pretty tricky) and so I am going to go down to see them. The only sad thing is that with the timing of the school holidays YKW can't come too so they will have to meet another time.
So I am off to the train station in a few minutes. I booked in advance last week and got a first class ticket for £5 more than the normal ticket so I will be travelling in luxury with a table and a plug socket which means that I will be able to do some of my sermon prep for Sunday as well as getting a bit of a glimpse into how the other half live!
One of the things that I have been very fortunate in since I became a Christian is the people that I have had around me; people who have looked out for me and been a source of encouragement, rebuke, advice and friendship. Today I learnt a new lesson from one of these people and, despite the fact that I am not a Trekkie, the seriousness of the imagery was not lost on me.
We had a fairly relaxing few days away, getting back late last night and being thrown straight back into action this morning. I was away from the internet for more or less the whole time that we were away (2 minutes to check flight times being the only exception); I suspect that I am becoming slightly over reliant on the www.
I have had a busy day today although it might not have looked like it from the outside. I spent an enjoyable couple of hours chatting about discipleship with a leader from another church this morning, and then spent several hours in a local coffee shop studying. The reason for the study being done in those surroundings is simply that I have been finding working out of the flat during the day quite hard. I think it may be something of an 'Extrovert' thing (or perhaps it's just me being weird) because tonight, with YKW around and working elsewhere in the flat, I have had a very productive time at home.
Various scenarios and situations that I am aware of this week have once again highlighted a particular question for me; Can there be such thing as a theology that is not practical?
I have often thought about this as I have studied and, having read pages and pages written by countless authors throughout the history of Christianity in the course of my study, I can only conclude at this stage that theology does need to be practical. An abstract idea is all very well, but when its strength to withstand scrutiny will come under the sharpest test will be when it is confronted by a 'real life' situation, and only then will we see if it is practical or not. I am aware that this may sound as if I would suggest compromising on theological issues in order to make them practically workable, but I don't think that that has to be the case. But there does need to be a way in which they can be worked through and worked out.


I know I'm farely new here, although have been lurking for a few months, and some of you may already have heard this before but I thought I'd share just in case.
After my MMC in Sept, I was told to make a memory box so that in 20 or so years time, when someone asked you about that time in your life, you would have a box of things to show them.
When we felt up to it, DH and I went shopping and got a lovely yellow box with teddies on, inside I put one of my positive pregnancy tests, a scan photo, a water bottle (as I could only drink water due to morning sickness), a lovely poem, a teddy bear I had got for bean and a small silver cross necklace I took to the chapel with me. At Christmas I made a bauble with the necklace inside and put it on the tree to remember our bean, I've now put the bauble in my memory box too.
It's nice to have something to look at when I feel sad and thought some of you might find some comfort doing this too when you felt ready.


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3 Stocks to Buy Now That the Markets Are Falling in 2016
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning • February 24, 2016
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All of the key benchmarks are down sharply since the start of the year, and many companies with strong fundamentals have seen their stocks suffer.
That's why Money Morning Defense & Tech Specialist Michael A. Robinson has pinpointed three of the best stocks to buy now that they're trading at a discount.
The stocks to buy Robinson found are all in the life sciences sector.
"Despite the recent slump, that sector – which includes biotech – offers investors some of the best long-term opportunities for building wealth," Robinson explains. "And that means you definitely want biotech stocks in your portfolio, especially now."
These three stocks to buy have all been pulled down by the broader market sell-off, and they could continue lower in the short term as the markets remain volatile. The Dow, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq are down 7.1%, 7.38%, and 11.48%, respectively, in 2016. That's made investors nervous around the world.
But if you're a long-term investor with time to wait, these stocks are all trading at a discount.
"It bears noting that the Dow Jones U.S. Biotechnology Index bottomed out on Feb. 12, barely a week after Martin Shkreli testified before Congress about the infamous drug increase by 'taking the fifth,'" Robinson said. "It's gained more than 6% since then."
"That's great news for us because biotech and other life sciences firms offer investors excellent long-term potential," he continued. "These are companies that are coming up with the blockbuster treatments that will save millions of lives and bring in billions of dollars in new sales."
That's left many investors tempted to head for the exits or simply sit on the sidelines. But such moves mean they will likely miss out on some smart buys.
And according to Robinson, these three stocks to buy now are poised to reward investors with an average return of 69% in the next year. Here are his picks…
Stocks to Buy Now No 1: Celgene Corp. (Nasdaq: CELG)
Celgene Corp. (Nasdaq: CELG) is a New Jersey-based global biotech company that discovers and develops therapies for cancers and anti-inflammatory diseases.
CELG shares have recently slumped due to concerns about slowing sales of its breakout cancer drug Revlimid. Still, sales are expected to be at least 15% higher this year than in 2015. Year over year, CELG's overall sales grew 24% to $2.53 billion, and earnings per share grew 17% to $1.18.
The company also plans to release several new drugs by the end of the decade, reducing its reliance on Revlimid. Abraxane, a compound for pancreatic, breast, and lung cancers, saw sales grow 14% for the fourth quarter. Celgene management expects an even bigger sales increase this year.
On Feb. 18, Celgene announced successful results from phase 2 trials of RADIANCE, used to treat patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. Reductions in brain lesions at 24 weeks were maintained, while relapses were further reduced at week 72 with continuous RADIANCE treatment. No new safety or tolerability issues were identified during this blinded extension.
"Celgene has a PEG ratio of 0.70, meaning it's priced 30% below fair value," Robinson writes. "It has a forward P/E of 14.5, about a 9% discount from the overall market."
Wall Street's median consensus estimate on Celgene is $144. One analyst has a $163 price target. Shares currently trade at $100.50.
"So, we're looking at one-year gains between 38% and 56%," Robinson said.
Stocks to Buy Now No 2: Mylan NV (Nasdaq: MYL)
Mylan NV (Nasdaq: MYL) is a global leader in the generic drug market. The company boasts some 1,400 generic and branded products.
Robinson has pinpointed this stock because of the smart-money investors who have recently piled in. Storied investor John Paulson's healthcare fund owns some 22.9 million shares of Mylan, with an estimated value of $1.2 billion.
"Ordinarily, I don't pay a lot of attention to stocks favored by hedge fund managers," Robinson said. "But this time I think it pays to do so."
On Feb. 19, Mylan announced its new drug application for fluticasone propionate has been accepted for filing by the Food and Drug Administration. Fluticasone propionate is a generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Advair Diskus inhalation powder used to treat asthma and airflow obstruction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. If all goes well, it should be on the market in March 2017.
Shares trade at $45.39, giving it a market cap of $22.87 billion.
"It's priced about one-third below fair value with a PEG ratio of 0.67," Robinson said. "The stock also has a forward P/E of just 8.5, an 85% discount from the S&P 500. Analysts have a high-water price of $76 on the stock, which would mean a 63% pop in one year. I think that's probably conservative."
Stocks to Buy Now No. 3: Jazz Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: JAZZ)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc. (Nasdaq: JAZZ) is an Ireland-based biopharmaceutical company that identifies, develops, and commercializes pharmaceutical products for various medical needs.
Its products include Xyrem, an oral solution for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in patients with narcolepsy; Erwinaze to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); and Defitelio for the treatment and prevention of severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease.
The company is running multiple phase 3 trials for JZP-110 to treat patients with excessive daytime sleepiness due to a form of sleep apnea that covers about 85% of the 12 million Americans who have the condition.
The stock trades at $118.39, giving it a market cap of $7.46 billion.
"It has a PEG ratio of 0.43, meaning it trades at a more than 55% discount from fair value," Robinson shares. "It also has a forward P/E of 11, a 43% discount from the S&P 500."
Analysts have a median price target of $178 and a high price target of $230 on the stock. "That means one-year profits between 45% and 88%," Robinson said.
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That way if the aircraft does crash it gained't endure much damage. Apply, and get comfortable with, your hovering abilities.These RC boats make for great beginner toys. Since the sail powers the boat, which is powered by wind, there is not a fantastic offer of upkeep needed from the owner. There is no engine to be acquainted with in situation some thing breaks. Nonetheless, sailing is nonetheless a skill that needs to be mastered in order for you to manage the boat, so you want to make sure this is some thing you'd appreciate prior to investing in this kind of RC boat.Another family friendly place you'll want to include to your list of things to do Chicago is the Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo is open year round and provides experiences for entire family in wildlife conservation, education. and social duty.The final RC airplane type that I want to tell you is the Foam RC plane. This airplane is small and the price is fairly cheap. The fuselage is flat and it provides much more durability. 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The year 2004 was capped by the appointment of Indonesia's senior diplomat, Makarim Wibisono, as head of the United Nation's Human Rights Commission for the next year.
Starting Jan. 17, 2005, Indonesia will officially see its representative at the helm of this prestigious commission.
Hopes that this achievement may bring with it an improvement in human rights protection back home are rather premature, with rights activists considering the appointment an insult due to Indonesia's poor human rights record.
This year did not witness any improvement in human rights protection in this country.
It's not hard to find examples of this: the acquittal of most defendants implicated in East Timor atrocities, and the government's decision to prolong the emergency status in Aceh, which is rife with rights abuses.
The country's poor record in human rights protection this year was topped off, sadly, with the death -- presumed murder -- of prominent rights campaigner Munir in September aboard a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Arsenic poisoning was the cause of death, according to an autopsy performed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute.
As many activists anticipated, the investigation into the case is running sluggishly. The National Police have questioned a number of Garuda employees and passengers on the flight, but so far has not named anyone as a suspect. Another team of police officers spent over two weeks in the Netherlands to consult with local investigators, but so far this has not born any fruit.
A rights campaigner has observed that the government, as well as the House of Representatives, have deliberately chosen not to enforce the law when it comes to investigating cases of human rights violations.
Instead, the national leadership, including former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and her successor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, have preferred taking a "softer" approach, such as reconciliation, to iron out human rights wrinkles.
"Taking firm action to resolve human rights violations may backfire on them due to the alleged involvement of government officials and legislators loyal to them," the campaigner said.
Human rights violations in the country are commonly linked to the military, police, government officials and politicians, he said.
His accusation may not be 100 percent accurate, but it's probably not that far from the truth either.
A clear example was the refusal of the Attorney General's Office to declare the Trisakti shooting incident and May 1998 riots, as well as other cases known as Semanggi I in October 1998 and Semanggi II in September 1999, as gross violations of human rights, as was recommended by the National Commission on Human Rights.
During the final year of Attorney General M.A. Rachman's tenure, the commission submitted these cases for prosecution. However, the Attorney General's Office turned down the request, citing a "lack of evidence".
After completing its second investigation, the commission handed over the cases, again, to the Attorney General's Office, which is now led by former Supreme Court justice Abdul Rahman Saleh.
To date, the office has yet to decide whether to follow up the commission's findings or drop them.
Hopes to uphold justice look remote as well in human rights violation cases in the Papuan towns of Wamena and Wasior in 2001 and 2003 respectively, which allegedly involved the military and the police. The commission has declared these cases to be gross human rights violations.
Instead of prosecuting suspects in human rights cases, the government has preferred to launch, last July, the second national action plan on human rights to improve the country's record in the field.
Under the action plan, stipulated in Presidential Decree No. 40/2004, regional administrations are to set up human rights committees that will disseminate information and educate bureaucrats and professional groups on human rights.
The national action plan for the next five years is expected to improve people's awareness and protection of human rights across the country.
The first national action plan on human rights was launched as part of the 1999 State Policy Guidelines. The action plan clearly failed with human rights abuses continuing unabated.
Both the government and the House have instead pushed for out-of-court settlements for past human rights violations. In September, the House endorsed a bill for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which would seek to resolve all cases of human rights abuses that took place before Law No. 26/2000 on the human rights tribunal came into effect.
Rights activists have warned that the commission would face an uphill climb in its efforts to facilitate reconciliation between the victims and perpetrators of human rights abuses, as the law would benefit human rights perpetrators rather than helping victims seek justice.
The establishment of the commission was mandated by a People's Consultative Assembly Decree issued in 2000, which says the commission will help boost national unity through reconciliation.


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In the fall of 2018 the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico awarded franchises to five telecom-munications companies for the purpose of placing both fiber-optic cables and 5G antennas in the streets and on the sidewalks of our fair city. Immediately the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, which has been working against wireless technology since 2005, hired an attorney and filed a lawsuit against our city, our state, and the United States of America.
Today, two years and eight months later, there are still no 5G antennas on the sidewalks of our city. Everyone -- the Alliance, the government defendants, the citizens of Santa Fe, those that are watching around the world, and the telecommunications companies that hold the franchises -- are waiting to see whether our lawsuit will succeed.
Other organizations are also in court trying to stop 5G. Both the Environmental Health Trust and Children's Health Defense are doing excellent work and have sued the FCC over its recent orders facilitating the rollout of antennas. But regardless of the outcome of those lawsuits, the fundamental problem will remain, and 5G antennas will continue to be built, as long as the federal law that the FCC administers remains in place. That law is the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the provision that has been strangling all opposition to cell towers for 25 years is Section 704 of that law.
Section 704 prohibits states and local governments from regulating cell towers on the basis of the environmental effects of radio-frequency radiation, and for 25 years, "environmental effects" has been interpreted by the courts to mean "health effects." Since 1996, no city in the US has been permitted to protect the public from the radiation, or even to hear testimony about the health effects of cell towers. No lawsuit for injuries or losses caused by cell towers has been permitted to go to trial in any court. A large class of environmental refugees continues to grow as thousands lose their health, their homes and their businesses every day.
Ours is the first organization to sue a city to stop 5G antennas from being built on its sidewalks. Ours is the first lawsuit ever filed that challenges the notion that "environmental effects" means "health effects." And ours is the only lawsuit that is challenging the constitutionality of Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. We are suing to force our city and our state to protect our health, and we are asking the courts to declare that Section 704 is unconstitutional and invalid because it deprives people of life, liberty and property without due process of law.
On May 27, 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver decided against us, making our case ripe for appeal to the United States Supreme Court. We have retained two law firms, one on the east coast and one on the west, to draft the petition for certiorari and argue the case if the Supreme Court agrees to hear it. Both law firms have experience in constitutional and environmental law. We will also be soliciting amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs from organizations and governments. Our petition for certiorari must be filed in the Supreme Court on or before October 25, 2021.
Our complaint against the City of Santa Fe, the New Mexico Attorney General, and the United States, originally filed in the district court in 2018, is here:
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VICTORY, AT LEAST FOR NOW, IN ITALY
In my last newsletter, I reported that there had been an 18-day hunger strike against 5G in Italy and that the Alleanza Italiana Stop 5G had delivered 340,000 signatures to the Minister of Health asking for a moratorium on 5G and the Internet of Things. The exposure limit in Italy for radio-frequency radiation is 6 V/m, which is ten times lower than in most of the western world, and 5G cannot be deployed where the exposure limit is that low. Therefore the Italian Parliament was proposing amendments to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan that would have raised the exposure limit to 61 V/m, which would be in line with most of the rest of Europe.
On July 29, 2021, the Alleanza announced that their petition has been successful. On July 13, during the week of protests, Parliament rejected the amendments and voted, at least for the present, to keep the exposure limit at 6 V/m.
SMART FOX
In Lakeville, Minnesota is the Save a Fox rescue facility that rescues foxes from the local fur farm and elsewhere and prepares them for adoption. When a mother fox at the fur farm rejects one of her babies, or when one of their foxes becomes disabled or sick, they give it to Save a Fox.
One day last year, Mikayla Raines, the founder of Save a Fox, was preparing to do a yoga exercise and she set her smartphone on the ground to film her while she did her yoga. Along came one of her foxes, grabbed the phone, ran a long distance away, and dug a hole in order to bury it. This is a picture of the fox:
And this is the video that was captured by Mikayla's smartphone while it was being carried in Dixie's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6WbkPeRbU.
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Today, I have the most important announcement in the quarter of a century history of this newsletter. My goal and passion has always been about supporting you and helping you take control of your health. I am beyond thrilled that there are tens of millions of people who have benefited from what I have shared over the years.
I am filled with joy and gratitude every time I travel and lecture as invariably many people tell me how I've changed their lives by providing vital information they couldn't find anywhere else and even better that was completely free.
These were the times when many of the views I presented were criticized, but that's to be expected. That was one of the great freedoms we enjoyed. We could have different views and we could speak openly about these views without fear of retribution.
But we are now in a different time. A much darker time. The silence of free speech is now deafening.
Not only is blatant censorship tolerated, it is being encouraged by the very people who were to be entrusted with protecting our freedom of speech.
We are not living from the lessons we've learned before. Never in my life, would I believe the sitting President of the United States call out 12 Americans in a McCarthyism like attack in the United States. As you are aware, I was placed at the top of this list.
The last week has brought a tremendous amount of reflections to me, and a lot of unacceptable threats to a company full of amazing people that have helped me support you in this journey.
By now I am sure you know that there was a recent NY Times article attacking me and it was one of the most widely distributed stories in the world. The article was loaded with false statements made about me and my organization.
The report would be laughed at if it were to be submitted for peer review, the groups that created it are funded by dark money and operated by an illegal foreign agent. The press never questioned it, but ran with their orders from above.
I can deal with the CNN crews that chase me by car while I bicycle from my home. I feel sorry for the people in media that have to follow the orders they are given.
It is easy to dismiss the media pawns, but the most powerful individual on the planet has targeted me as his primary obstacle that must be removed. Every three letter agency is at his disposal, and the executive powers have grown beyond what an individual American's rights can protect against.
A dissenter of medical mandates is now a target and obstacle to be removed. I know – that's 25 years' worth of blood, sweat and tears coming down.
I can hardly believe these words are coming out of my mouth. It's a testament of just how radical things have degenerated in the recent past. However, I will continue to publish new articles, BUT going forward, each article I publish will be available for only 48 hours and will then be removed from the website.
We are at the crossroad where change is unavoidable. We all must make choices that determine our future. To many, this looks like a war ... but what we need to find is peace. I am going to find peace through this sacrifice.
Just to be clear, ALL my content will be removed. This includes articles on:
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These will be removed to appease the individuals in power who have an arsenal of overwhelming tools at their disposal, and are actively engaged in using them. COVID-19 has activated and authorized emergency powers that have weakened our constitutional rights. Sadly, cyberwarfare and authoritarian forces are beyond our abilities to withstand, and this is now our only way forward.
Over 15,000 articles full of vital information that has helped tens of millions across the world take control of their health, will be removed. There was a time when people could debate and respect each other freely. That time is now gone. I believe laws are best applied like medicine – locally and specifically.
Local food, local democracy – our local community strength is the best way to achieve peace moving forward, and to stop authoritarian technocracy. I also believe we are at our strongest when we can care and maintain respect for each other. This is how we can make our most important decisions in life.
Again I will still be writing my daily articles that I started 25 years ago BUT they will only be available for 48 hours before they are removed. In this way I hope to continue my mission to help you take control of your health – but it's up to you to download, share and repost this content. I will not be enforcing my copyright on this information so that you may freely share it.
Please also encourage others to read "The Truth About COVID-19," where you will find much of the information from the past two years that people need to read to wake up and open their eyes. I am donating all earnings to the National Vaccine Information Center.
I want to thank all of you that have supported me over the years. I hope you can understand why I have decided to make this dramatic decision and hope the remaining ephemeral articles will be useful for those who wish to read them.
We will continue through these challenging times together, and remember this:
Your body was designed to stay healthy.
You hold in your hands the power to take control of your health.
Never let anyone take your right to health away from you.
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1. Cleanse your face with soap and water. Apply a small amount of soap on a towel and easily exfoliate skin to remove any dirt or oily substances. Rinse your face with warm water and wipe it gently with a clean towel.
2. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze its juice in a bowl. You can cover the bowl with a plastic foil, so you can reuse this mixture the next day. You can also add in this mixture an equal amount of rose water because it has antibacterial properties. Also is a natural facial tonic and reduces the lemon juice acidity.
3. Soak a cotton pad in this solution and start wiping your face gently until you cover the whole pimple area. If you don't have many pimples just soak a cotton swab and apply on every pimple.
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5. Rinse your face with cold water after the runs out, taking care to remove all residues. Wipe your face gently with a towel.
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On the Sixth Day God Created Man...chester, Part Four.
Iain Ellis
Doves and Elbow register in the 9-to-5 tradition of working class Manchester, where respect is earned through hard work, and character is assessed by true-to-self authenticity and true-to-others selflessness.
"What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow."
See also: On the Sixth Day God Created Man…chester: Part 1; Part 2 and; Part 3
"Has rock and pop music ever seemed so thoroughly knackered, so stumped for inspiration as it did in 2000?" asked The Guardian's Alexis Petridis in a reflective preamble to his glowing review of Elbow's Mercury Award-winning 2008 album, The Seldom Seen Kid. ("Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid", 14 March 2008) Alongside their fellow five-lettered friends from Greater Manchester, Doves, Elbow's arrival on the national music stage at the dawn of the decade went largely unheralded at the time, their non-descript names, drab images, and neo-prog rock tendencies eliciting resigned yawns more than sparks of excitement.
Since, though, Elbow and Doves have emerged—or have been re-evaluated—as trailblazing innovators of British guitar rock, their creative and evocative albums earning almost unanimous critical acclaim. As is so often the case with bands at the forefront of a zeitgeist moment—a circumstance so many prior Manchester bands have been in—it often takes hindsight to appreciate that which at the time was not, or could not, be foreseen. Petridis accepts his own mea culpa, noting that while Elbow are today embraced as one of the saviors of British guitar rock, the "hot" indie acts of 2000—JJ72, My Vitriol, and King Adora—are but distant memories.
The history of modern Manchester music has been a story of reactions and reinventions, of bands recognizing their predecessors while also acknowledging the need to break from them to pursue uncharted territory at points of artistic exhaustion. By the end of the '90s, Britpop, the nation's dominant guitar-based genre of the decade, had all but run its course, its principle flagship band, Manchester's Oasis, reaching the point of what Pitchfork's Hartley Goldstein called, "semi-retirement and complete creative bankruptcy."
As Britpop faded, a new rock paradigm came into view, symbolized by established bands like Radiohead and U2, as well as by acolytes like Coldplay, Muse, and Travis. Less tied to the Beatles and Kinks formulas that had restricted Britpop's song structures and styles, the so-called new millennium rock was less standardized and more ambitious in scope and purpose. Through an array of adventurous releases, Radiohead et al established an encouraging precedent: experimental rock music could still garner a receptive audience. And many of the new groups—Elbow and Doves among them—were taking note(s).
Although new millennium rock was neither rooted in nor developed from Manchester's rock traditions, when filtered through and embraced by the city's bands the genre often expressed many recognizable and long-standing local characteristics. Its anthemic song constructions played well to the stadium ambitions of U2, but in the hands of Elbow and Doves a more bitter-sweet melancholy and "rainy day" pall tempered the genre's inclinations towards euphoria and grandiosity. Big and bombastic in the hands of Muse, Elbow and Doves brought modest restraint to their epic constructions. Slow burning and textural like Radiohead, Elbow and Doves juxtaposed their art rock atmospherics with more down-to-earth and grounded lyrical explorations.
New millennium rock has become the prevailing genre of the last decade for British bands with guitars, and it has also contributed a new chapter to the history of Manchester music. A low key and folk-oriented side to the form has been represented by such introspective operators as Badly Drawn Boy, I Am Kloot, and David Gray, while Elbow and Doves have developed a more multifaceted neo-progressive style. In their hands, an "introspective epic" side to new millennium rock has emerged, a sub-genre particularly identified with artists hailing from the Manchester music scene. This sub-genre echoes many of the hallmarks of the city's musical roots, while simultaneously expanding beyond them, in the process continuing Manchester's long-standing artistic trajectories towards innovation and influence.
Roots 'n' Fruits
The history of Manchester rock has been one where external as well as internal influences have been enthusiastically embraced, each used as stepping stones into new avenues of musical development. Elbow and Doves are clearly bands whose members have large and eclectic record collections. Classic prog rockers like Pink Floyd, Genesis, and ELO linger in the grooves of both bands' long, shape-shifting songs, in their time variations, in their multiple effects, and in their experimental sonic directives. Tinkling pianos enter and exit, horns interject, orchestras soar, and choirs join in, often within the same song!
Yet this is not your father's prog rock, as the moody sound-scapes of Elbow and Doves are infiltrated by the pulses of modernity, too, ambient techno rhythms often providing the backdrops for the more traditional instrumentation, particularly in Doves' works. Radiohead are the common denominator inspiration here, but the acid house beats that the Madchester scene imported from Detroit and Chicago are equally omnipresent, while Manchester's northern soul tradition—rooted in the beats of Motown—can also be heard, if, perhaps, by way of the precedential forays of the Stone Roses. For all the broad-ranging influences and deep musical roots at the heart of Elbow and Doves, a notably Manchester sound still emanates from them in the final product. As the NME opined when reviewing Doves' house-inspired debut album, Lost Souls (2000), "above all you hear a time and place" in the songs. ("Lost Souls" 31 March 2000)
The striking similarities that make Elbow and Doves kindred rock spirits can be accounted for by their own deep roots in time and place. Unlike so many boom-and-bust bands of these times, Elbow and Doves are classically mature bands who paid their dues through many years of labor on the Greater Manchester small club circuit. While the Elbow boys met at school in Bury during the late '80s, Doves came from Wilmslow but came together through their common attendance at Manchester's infamous Factory-owned Hacienda Club, which, during the late '80s, was the epicenter of the city's acid house craze. There, they met with such Factory insiders as Rob Gretton and Bernard Sumner.
Then called Sub Sub, they signed with the former's Rob Records and received production assistance from the latter, enjoying some commercial success with a few techno-inspired releases that owed more than a little to the prevailing Madchester techno scene, particularly to Sumner's New Order. The band recently paid tribute to this influence with "Jetstream" (from Kingdom of Rust [2009]), a song that could sit snugly within any New Order collection.
Elbow were similarly affected by the music that surrounded them in early nineties Manchester. Unlike Doves, however, they drew more inspiration from earlier local acts like Joy Division and The Smiths than from the pulsing beats of acid house. Ian Curtis' bleak musings on existential themes and affairs of the heart echo through Guy Garvey's similarly introspective reflections, though Garvey has a perspective more attuned to redemption than fated futility. Morrissey's wry observational humor is also apparent in Garvey's lyrics, self-deprecation being the common ingredient tempering their ubiquitous melodramatic pleas and lovelorn personas. PopMatters critic Michael Lomas assesses Garvey as "a less maudlin Morrissey" but still "one funny fucker." ("Elbow: Leaders of the Free World", 17 February 2006) Both largely out-of-step with the Britpop explosion of the mid-'90s, Elbow and Doves were spectators as their fellow Mancunians Oasis exported the genre's local manifestation around the globe. Such mis-timing has proven to be a mixed blessing for these bands, though, for as much as the '90s were barren years for them, when Britpop faded so Elbow and Doves were prepared to step into the void it left.
Now, rather than being perceived as aging has-beens (as Oasis have been), they have been embraced with adulation and admiration, their experience and perseverance seen as welcome aberrations within an industry ordinarily intent on disregarding such traits. Moreover, thanks to the good fortune of the winds of change, both bands have found that the neo-prog innovations they labored upon in decades past have now become the cutting edges of a larger rock zeitgeist, thus propelling them and their music to the forefront of critically-admired British guitar rock. And unlike some of the pouting prima donnas that preceded them from within Manchester's rock royal court (hello Liam!), such a happy accident could not have happened to a more modest, accommodating, and nicer bunch of blokes.
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Congress passes the District of Columbia Tissue Bank Act to encourage and aid the development of reconstructive medicine and surgery, and the development of medico-surgical research by authorizing the licensing of tissue banks in the Districts of Columbia to facilitate antemortem and postmortem donations of human tissues for tissue bank purposes.
Dr. J.H. King receives a letter from White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger who served in the administrations of both Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, noting the passage of the Act and including a pen used at the signing by the President. This Act gave Dr. King the ammunition to gain support to develop eye banks in Washington, DC.
JERUSALEM: Dr. David Paton is supported by grants from the International Eye Bank, later IEF, and the National Eye Institute at NIH to serve as Medical Director for one year at the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem where he introduced corneal transplant surgery. The young King Hussein himself officially opened the eye bank and saw first-hand how a corneal transplant can return sight to someone who would otherwise remain blind. King Hussein publicly signed a donor pledge card which went a long way to promoting cultural acceptability of donating corneas after death.


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Jim McLean: Dundee United announce series of tributes to greatest ever boss ahead of first home game since his passing
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January 6, 2021, 1:48 pm Updated: January 6, 2021, 2:05 pm
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Jim McLean pictured during 1984/85 season.
Dundee United have announced a series of tributes to Jim McLean ahead of their first home match since the death of the club's greatest ever manager.
McLean – who guided the Tangerines to the league title and made them a force in Europe – passed away on Boxing Day at the age of 83 following a battle with dementia.
Salute to Dundee United legend Jim McLean at St Johnstone clash
United opened an online book of condolences as a mark of respect, with Micky Mellon and his first-team players observing a minute's silence and wearing black armbands at games against Celtic and Aberdeen.
And for Saturday's visit of St Johnstone, the Tannadice side have produced a special 80-page limited edition match-day programme in memory of McLean, with proceeds going to Alzheimer Scotland.
A share of the pay-per-view revenue from the match will also go towards the charity after United's partners Stream Digital waived their fees for the fixture.
Tangerines stars will wear tribute t-shirts during the warm-up while there will be a minute's applause before the game and during it – the second one in the 83rd minute, a nod to the club's 1983 title triumph under the legendary boss.
Fans saluted Dundee United's greatest ever manager Jim McLean at Tannadice following his death.
United said: "Our first home game of 2021 has us returning to our home stadium to celebrate the life and Tannadice career of Jim McLean.
"With the permission and wishes of the McLean family we will honour and celebrate Jim's impact on Dundee United in a number of ways and will donate revenues from these projects towards Alzheimer Scotland."
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Jim McLean at Tannadice in 2011.
Jim Pearson, the charity's director of policy and research, said: "Alzheimer Scotland are deeply saddened by the passing of football legend, Jim McLean and send our sincerest sympathies to his family and all who knew him.
"We are honoured to be a beneficiary of a fund being set up in Jim's name.
"Alzheimer Scotland's mission is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone.
"This has never been so important as during the coronavirus pandemic, which has had such a significant impact on our dementia community.
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"The support from this fund will help us continue to be there for people with dementia and their families and carers across Scotland.
"We are proud of our much-valued ongoing relationship with Dundee United Football Club, through the Football Memories Project and continued fundraising initiatives.
"This work is making a real and direct impact to the lives of so many people in Scotland living with dementia, as well as their families and friends.
Jim McLean held aloft by his Dundee United players after winning title at Dens Park.
"We must say thank you to the McLean family, as well as the Dundee United Football Club and Community Trust.
"If you, or anyone you know, would like information or emotional support our 24-hour Freephone Dementia Helpline is here for you. Call us anytime on 0808 808 3000."
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"Feeling the Truth" by Mark W. Harris – April 20, 2014
"Feeling the Truth" by Mark W. Harris
April 20, 2014 – First Parish of Watertown
Call to Worship: Easter is Paradox by Richard S. Gilbert
Easter is paradox;
It is the leap over the chasm
between life and death,
Between victory and defeat.
Between joy and sorrow
Easter holds together the reality of crucifixion,
And the myth of resurrection.
The Jesus of history and the Christ of faith.
Those who lose their lives for others
will be saved.
Those who save their lives for self
will be lost.
Love is real only when we give it away.
Love hoarded melts inevitably as spring snow.
"In the midst of winter
(We) find in (ourselves) an invincible summer."
Sermon: "Feeling the Truth"
When I was growing up Easter was a big deal in my family. We always went out and purchased new clothes – sport coats and ties for me and my brothers, and especially new dress shoes, which is what I remember the best because they always seemed to pinch and hurt my feet, and I couldn't wait to get them off. Candy helped assuage the pain. We also prepared a big dinner, which included ham and raisin, sauce. God knows the symbolic meaning of raisin sauce, but I have hated baked ham ever since. I loved the hot cross buns my father made every year, because I could lick off the frosting cross. That was the true transubstantiation of Jesus' body; none of this dry wafer stuff. It was a big production getting ready for church with a mad rush to get six people out the door with every hair combed, tight shoe tied, and tooth brushed.
One year when I was about ten years old there was an unfortunate confluence of events. You may remember that until recently daylight saving time was usually observed a little later in the spring. So it must have been a Sunday in April, much like today when the hour time change of "spring ahead" was on the same day as Easter. Here we were some half century ago with the Harris family faithfully dressed for Easter Sunday, but surprise, surprise, we had forgotten to change our clocks. Our 11:00 a. m turned out to be high noon, and as we arrived at the white clapboard Congregational church, the parishioners were streaming out the door, resurrected once again, and were now saying goodbye to the round face pastor, and heading for their cars so that they could go eat that luscious ham. I know my parents were embarrassed, mortified even, but still somewhat assured that we had at least made the effort. We sheepishly headed home.
Although I did not grow up a Unitarian Universalist, this story somehow captures the dilemma UUs are confronted with on Easter. We are all dressed up with nowhere to go. Somehow our timing is a little bit off. We celebrate Easter, and yet we don't believe in it. We like Jesus, but we don't want him saving us from our sins. Sometimes we don't even go that far. This year I heard a funny story about a colleague who was a guest preacher in Lexington on Easter, when the minister was on sabbatical. He conducted the entire service, and did not mention Easter once. I asked a parishioner there, "Didn't you think that was a little odd?" And he said, "Kind of." Sometimes we just avoid the subject and celebrate spring. This year that seems to work, as the coming of spring has been so reluctant, we may need a miraculous resurrection to make it happen.
This morning we heard a slight retelling of Beatrix Potter's, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. What seems like a cute little story to us today certainly has its macabre side. Just back of Peter Rabbit's story was the remembrance of his poor father, who was captured by Mr. McGregor and then eaten in a stew. Regardless of the Oedipal material, there is this painful backdrop for the little critter to consider, perhaps as an incentive to make all children who hear the story behave and stay out of other's gardens. That's works for me, but it also reminds us of what hell life can be. This little bunny's dad was killed and eaten, and now we find him sitting depressed at home, while having also lost his clothes. We see some further adventures with a cat and those smelly onions that cause even more anxiety, panic attacks and fear, but in the meantime, he just wants things to return to normal. And so they do in the end, despite his terrible loss. Mr. McGregor also learns that some things in life just must go unexplained.
This weekend many people are being reminded of a traumatic trial. I don't mean just the Good Friday experience of Jesus 2,000 years ago. No, I mean the terrible experience of the marathon bombing, the subsequent lockdown and the manhunt here. The recent show of support for the firefighters who were killed brought back some of this same feeling of reflection on issues of public safety, trauma and the power of community solidarity. Yet it is a mixture of feelings. Even though I missed the lockdown, I know when I hear a helicopter overhead it symbolizes law enforcement searching for somebody who has frightened the public with an attack. We all have a bit of an edge, and perhaps lingering grief over losses that we have never healed from. I am bothered when those who have suffered massive injuries sometimes seem to be put on public display to satisfy some hunger for meaning. I think some have been strong, but for others it means a lifetime of pain and suffering. How do they get back to normal? And then others seem to capitalize on the suffering by having the maimed write a book so the promoter can make a buck. News becomes sensationalized and filled with feeling rather than fact to create a sense of solidarity, but it only approximates or even subverts the truth.
Fifty years ago this year, there was a sensational murder in New York City. Kitty Genovese was attacked raped and killed outside her apartment building. What could have been just another crime became a cause celebre. Subsequently the New York Times reported 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens had seen and heard this murder, and did nothing. Over a half-hour of gruesome attack, it was said; no one tried to call or help. It was implied that everyone in our neighborhoods are callous, and no one cares about other people. For some it confirmed our feelings about mean-spirited New Yorkers. Yet for others it became a motivation for public action, and the beginning of the 911 calling system, which was instituted in 1968. Most worrisome of all was what we have come to call the bystander effect. This is the phenomenon where a group fails to help someone who is in distress or trouble. We describe how firefighters run into the fire, but this is the reverse; the people who see trouble and run away. This reminds me of those in the trial of Jesus, who could have easily said "free Jesus," the one who had clearly been tortured, and was in distress. Yet instead they turned on Jesus, and said "free Barabbas." So it becomes easy to condemn the crowd in the telling of these stories. Yet are people so cruel?
The Genovese case returns to public consciousness this year because of the anniversary, but also because people remain fascinated by it. Perhaps the public wants to burden itself with the question, did we witness this crucifixion and do nothing? Do we think of ourselves as bad Samaritans? Are we people who don't want to get involved? These are questions about human nature that the Genovese case raises. The public perception carried by these reports was that humans were uncaring. Yet the perception was wrong. She screamed when she was attacked, and someone yelled at the attacker to leave her alone, and he ran away. Did 38 people just watch? The killer returned and attacked her again. While there was one well-publicized individual who said he did not want to get involved, he did not represent the vast majority of people. There were others who called the police, because an ambulance soon came to the scene, and further, she did not die alone and forsaken. A neighbor held her in her arms trying to comfort her. One other person was too terrified to do anything. So there were a variety of responses with some coming forward to help, while others did not. The reporting startled the public into believing something about their very nature as people. The message is you people are so bad, I must force you to confront your evil, to make you be good. Yet the reporters failed to pay attention to what actually happened, and used their ideological beliefs or emotional response to promote falsehood.
Part of this story shows that we should be careful of those who would manipulate our feelings with story, because the stories they perpetrate may only be based in myth or feeling. Think of how many lynchings took place in the South because it was reported that a black man had raped a white woman. Public explanations of violence, often untrue then set off more violence. How many people blame every Muslim in the Middle East because two young Chechnyan men set off the marathon bombs? We extrapolate a truth based on our feelings about something, and yet do we rationally examine those feelings or accept the story that fits our preconception of truth?
I was talking to a colleague recently about an evaluation of his ministry. He has not been evaluated in the past, and his present congregation is using an anonymous survey that allows individuals to say whatever they please without accountability. While it might be one thing to say, "I don't like his sermons," what especially disturbed him was the comment, "Bill's absence from coffee hour has been noted." Well, in fact Bill has never missed a coffee hour. The comment wrecks havoc with public perception because it perpetrates a complete lie, so that people might ask, is he at coffee hour? Is this true?
Yet this person may feel this is true because she feels like he is not paying enough attention to her. And yet her need to have someone pay attention to her may be endless. It reminded me of my experience when I moved here from Milton, and parishioners there pursued the perception that I was not present because I lived here, but in fact, I tried so hard to over compensate, I was there all the time, more than I ever sat in the office before. But it didn't matter because they had an agenda to create a widespread myth that I was not present. Their feeling of abandonment worked, even though there was little rational truth behind it. Our truths about whether we have been listened to or cared for or not may be baseless, but once we have uttered them, others start believing.
Now you might say that the rational faith of a UU would make it so they would never be susceptible to such feeling, but in fact most of us base our beliefs in feeling whether we think we do or not. It surfaces in statements like "Bill's not at coffee hour," or "Mark's not here." But the Kitty Genovese story reminds us how important it is to try to know the truth. The perpetrated lie was that people are mean and uncaring, but the truth was that a lot of people wanted to help and some did. We know we are not perfect, but to accept that we don't care means we let projected feelings about ourselves and others keep us all from the truth. As a Christian growing up, adults told me that Jesus would save me from my sins, or in other words, I would need to be cleansed of the badness in me. That was not based on anything about my behavior but was assumed to be true of my very nature, and that I would have to become something very different to be saved. Yet today I would argue that the central truth about the Easter resurrection is an affirmation of my Unitarian Universalist faith. I am not saved from my sins, but rather I am saved because of my sins.
Now your initial reaction might be that this is a ridiculous notion. I am no sinner, so I don't need to be saved from them or because of them. But if you don't think human beings are sinners, or whatever word you want to use to describe selfish behavior, then you have not read a newspaper lately and you live in a rabbit hole. We all are quite capable of making the biggest messes in the world. It is not just those terrible Republicans, or everybody but me and my friends. My selfishness, or my drunkenness, or my anger, or my self righteousness have caused a lot of pain to others, but any and all of those acts have never been the final word, or deed. I still have another chance. I still have a chance to say I am sorry, or I love you, or reach out to a person in pain, or live a daily-resurrected faith as a struggling human being trying to make amends or be better. Yet I don't need to be anything different than who I am because it is the struggling ones who are trying each day to live with integrity. Messiness is precisely what will save me. But the saving continues to occur because it is a process of working with my struggles, and overcoming them, not saying either Jesus will save me from them, OR worse, I never had any in the first place. If you are not trying to be transformed into a more whole person, then you will never understand the Easter message.
We Unitarian Universalists often reject the idea of resurrection because it sounds like a literal raising of a body from the dead, and we define that as irrational. The rest of the culture seems to want to take this irrational belief and make it rational. As a result we have movies that tell us "Heaven is Real," and we hear amazing stories of boys who go there and come back in after death experiences. We have phone calls from heaven, and life after life. Characters die over and over again, and look at different alternatives for their life. And so like so many things heaven has become a business. As a writer in the Times recently said, "Once the realm of religion, eternal life has now metastasized into a billion dollar industry." This is all about feeling. And of course, we all have our fears of death, and these ideas give us comfort. It helps with anxiety to believe there is an afterlife, and a big part of the resurrection story today is to assuage that anxiety. But most Jews like Jesus were not particularly concerned about this felt need to live forever.
In Jesus' encounter with Pilate, he tells him that he has come into the world to tell the truth, but Pilate does not seem to know what he means by this, and when he asks Jesus, what is truth, Jesus disengages. The obvious question might be how does a person come to know what is religious truth. Jesus never asked anyone to know him by feeling, but rather by examples of lived faith. The stories of the resurrection vary, but mostly he does not get up like Lazarus and walk around in ordinary ways. At times he is like a ghost, and even doubting Thomas is implored to touch him in order to prove that there is something real and corporeal about him. This is no rational truth here but rather a tremendous mystery that we cannot comprehend. Later in the Christian scriptures Peter says there are nine qualities a person can possess, and when you have these things then you know Jesus. These are things like goodness, kindness, love and compassion that you can cultivate in yourself. So the idea is that you embrace the resurrected Jesus by how you live your life, and you start right now in this moment by showing compassion, humility and forgiveness towards others.
There is a paradox here in that we cannot rationally understand immortality, or even know if it is possible, but we can embrace it in each moment by becoming like Jesus so that we embody the resurrected man. When you embrace that kind of life you will know peace and tranquility. He does not need to save you from your sins, because you are saved in your sins in being like him, just as he accepted everyone for who they are, offering forgiveness from feelings of shame or unworthiness. Maybe that is how the resurrected Jesus, those who are victims of murder like Kitty Genovese, or the victims of terrorist bombs and others are recalled. Our purpose is to bear witness for the dead, to immortalize their lives in ours, and through this impulse make them immortal. When we speak for the dead their lives live again in us, and we embrace the human longing for immortality both now and forever.
In one of the Downton Abbey episodes this year, the head butler Carson said, "The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end, that's all there is. " That makes life sound like a simple collection of what you experience, but I think that acquisition is about becoming those qualities of human transformation that each of us can embrace as our lives unfold, so that each new day, becomes a resurrection day of growing our souls in more beautiful and loving ways. That is the resurrection faith I embrace. I suppose it seems based more in reason than feeling. The difference is that I feel passionate about that bearing of witness for others. I feel passionate about making life more just for all, and I feel passionate about becoming a more loving person. Kierkegaard once said I never become a Christian – I am always in the process of becoming. I hope you too, in your search for integrity and love are always in the process of becoming. It may not be specifically Christian, but I hope it is an unending search for religious truth because whether you identify as Christian, Buddhist or atheist that search for an ever more compassionate you means the resurrected Jesus still lives, in you.
Closing Words (responsive)
"i thank You God for most this amazing day" by e.e. cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely
being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)